OCR in keyboard
Hello, would it possible to add an OCR from camera feature in SwiftKey? I’m looking for a way to use my camera to input text directly in my phone.
Hello, would it possible to add an OCR from camera feature in SwiftKey? I’m looking for a way to use my camera to input text directly in my phone.
Hello, thank you for your feedback. At the moment, Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard does not support the 'OCR' feature. We appreciate your feedback and will certainly pass your request along to our team. Thank you for your support!
I doubt Microsoft will even consider adding ocr support to SwiftKey, however, Samsung has added native OCR support to the camera and gallery apps on Android 13 (OneUI 5.0) which does exactly that - OCR text from image/camera to clipboard/other apps. That's probably the best we'll get for the foreseeable future.
Thanks for the consideration Hari.
Thanks for the tip Richard. I know iOS has it built-in their long-press menu options and the only way I found before upgrading to Android 13/OneUI 5.0 was to go through the Google Assistant, which offers a similar feature through Google Lens but the Assistant requires less clicks to extract text out of a camera shot/picture compared to the Samsung Camera app.